Antarctica

The wind in Antarctica blows all the time, and blizzards are quite common.

Sleeping bags and tents work nicely for sleeping in Antarctica, if you are an explorer.

The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent contains about 60% of the earth's fresh water, according to Wikipedia.

Early explorers used ships as their exploration vehicles. Both polar ocean waters are filled with icebergs and sailing in them is not only dangerous but extremely cold. Until the technology -- reinforced hulls, for example -- supported expeditions into these extreme situations, Antarctica could not reached.

Antarctica covers about 10% of the earth's surface and is counted among the seven continents on earth. In European schools, its often taught that there are only six continents, joining North and South America into a single continent.

The angle in which the earth is tilted towards the Sun, makes Arctic receiving Sunlight for major part of the year than Antarctic. As Antarctic receives light only fewer months/days the source of food is not abundant than Arctic. Also from the past maybe, As the continent(Antarctic) is alone, it's not possible for the new creatures to get migrated as in the case of Arctic. During ice age creatures from Asia, Europe & Americas had a chance to migrate to Arctic & we could fnd those migrated, adapted and survived to Arctic climatic conditions. So Arctic have more life than Antarctic.

You may be able to find a tour boat that will take you from Christchurch, New Zealand to Antarctica. Otherwise, you can charter a private, reinforced-hull ship to take you to your Antarctic destination.

When carefully controlled and monitored, tourism to Antarctica expands the knowledge about the wonder of the continent by making it a reality to more people.

Tour operators that are members of the International Association of Antarctic Tour operators acknowledge the potential damage to the continent and its breeding animals, and work to mitigate the impact of their tours to preserve the pristine environment.


Because The Antarctic Treaty governs all human activity south of 60 degrees south latitude, tourism can be regulated this way.


Read more by following the links, below.

The name of the super continent was Gondwanna (sometimes as Gondwana). When it broke up, Australia and the other southern continents split from each other.

And the Indian sub-continent headed off in a roughly northern direction to collide with Asia and create the Himalayas, which are still growing.

At an earlier time, the Northern super continent and the Southern one were believed to be one super continent, Pangaea. The northern collection of continents and major islands was Laurasia, and the Southern one Gondwanna.

Yes, in fact there are whole families living on Antarctica. The first baby born on the continent was to an Argentinian woman in the late seventies.

No. Continents have wandered over millions of years.

Antarctica has been hot.

Antarctica is a continent. It is not shrinking any more or less than any other continent on earth.

In case you may be looking for how much the ice surrounding the continent has shrunk in the last 30 years, you can read more, below.

Antarctica should be protected so all the poor animals can stay living there and scientists can continue lookng for further amazing discoveries about life there! We want to see further into this world, this cold world, so protect it!

That would be Antarctica.

Using this description of 'plains': "An extensive, level, usually treeless area of land," one could consider vast expanses of Antarctica as 'plains'.

However, since the continent is covered -- 98% -- by ice, and since it's too cold there for life to survive, there is no food chain there, so no trees can grow: Antarctica is often described as having 'long horizons', based on the flatness of the ice that covers the continent. This is especially true at the South Pole.

Antarctica is a continent. It has no countries bordering it, it is completely surrounded by water.

Most insects of Antarctica are parasites that live on birds and seals. The only known free-living insect is the springtail, which lives on algae and fungi, and are only active during the summer months.

There are many islands dotted around the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, but the nearest major land is the southern tip of South America, Argentina and Chile.

Ice shelves are attached to about 44% of the continent. Less than 40 named shelves remain in July 2015.

The average temperature of Antarctica is about -49 degrees Celsius or about -56.2 Fahrenheit.

The annual average temperature is -50°C (-58°F). Winter temperatures drop quickly, then level out. Summer is short, from mid-December to mid-January, however, temperatures can reach a balmy -30°C (-22°F)!

Antarctica covers 10% of the Earth's surface -- about as much land as USA and Mexico combined. It is the highest, driest, windiest, coldest, darkest continent. Averages don't mean much in Antarctica.

Most expeditions go from the sea to the South Pole and return to the sea the same direction. Roald Amundsen was one of the first to do so, the Scott Expedition, and Ernest Shackleton did it. A woman recently completed her solo round trip.

The largest animal on the Antarctic continent is the human animal, an invasive animal hired by countries to work there and live there in support of science.

There are no native animals in Antarctica: it's too cold and there is no food chain.

According to The Association of Religion Data Archives (2010), among the members of the scientific personnel in Antarctica, 72% are Christians, 2.71% are Muslim, 1% are Hindu, 0.7% are Buddhist, and 23.6% have no religion.
I hope you are kidding. There is no civilization of people in Antarctica. Antarctica is the southernmost continent of the earth and is extremely cold, dry, and dangerous. Only scientists are allowed to study the environment and take tests down there because it's an internationally preserved habitat. Even penguins- one of the very few species of life living on the continent, only occupy the shores of the land because they wouldn't be able to survive further inland. Religion is a practice of beliefs by humans. It's pretty generally known that nobody lives in Antarctica.